Woman takes selfies with all the men who allegedly catcalled her in a single month

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Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily life.

Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student from Amsterdam, posted 24 photos on an Instagram handle called @dearcatcallers. She created the Instagram page to "create awareness about the objectification of women in daily

Woman takes selfies with all the men who allegedly catcalled her in a single month

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Some of the men smile from the sidewalk. Others blow kisses from cars. Only a few pose reluctantly, slight frowns drawn on their faces. For the entire month of September, one woman took selfies with every person who she claims catcalled her.

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Speaking with her female friends about catcalling, Jansma recalled that they all nodded their heads knowingly. Discussing the same subject with her male friends had a different, disturbing outcome.

"They almost didn't believe me," she said. "Therefore, I decided to show them, and the rest of the world."

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Jansma, a design student at an academy in Eindhoven, views catcalling as a "power game."

"Catcallers don't actually assume I will give my phone number," she said. "They just want the feeling that they can say whatever they want about me, and that I can't do anything back."

Jansma says she first saw the project as a way of shifting the "power ratio," by placing her harassers in a potentially uncomfortable situation. But when she actually began taking the photos, the response of many of her alleged catcallers' surprised her.

"I thought the [men] would act aggressive or suspicious," she said. "But the opposite was true."

Jansma recalls most of the men "loved" being asked to join the selfie and jumped in without a second thought.

"I guess this is the funny, but also sad part about this all," she mused. "The catcallers themselves don't even understand that their behavior is not appreciated."

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Jansma has no plans to continue the project, but she's working to spread the Instagram account around the world "to show that this is a global phenomenon."

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